Dr. Roman Yukilevich, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Union College is presenting a talk titled, “The Evolution of Sexual Isolation in Drosophila: Why sympatry breeds contempt and who is to blame?” on Friday, November 9.  This is what Dr. Yukilevich says about his research interests:  “I am an evolutionary biologist interested in studying how reproductive isolation (speciation) evolves in nature.  To achieve this goal I study natural populations of Drosophila that have recently undergone divergence and  model the process of speciation on a computer to make further predictions about how species diverge in nature.”